Specialist fees will be published and consumers will review their quality of care in a new rate-my-doctor website that has angered the medical profession.

A pharmacist's dual role as retailer and healthcare professional had blurred the line between treating people as customers or patients, a review has heard.

There's a good chance this news will make you groan with guilt. But then again, it might also get you moving and prolong your life.

For years the 12-year-old has undergone a battery of tests, but a new lab hopes to find the answer.

A social media craze that swept the world two years ago has helped to fund a medical breakthrough for those living with motor neurone disease.

A woman has died in a mental health inpatient unit on the day news broke that two babies had been given the wrong gas at the same hospital.

Doctors are predicting the eradication of hepatitis C from Australia by 2026.

Expensive robotic prostate surgery, marketed as "ground breaking", "revolutionary" and "nerve sparing", has been found to be no better at preserving men's urinary continence and sexual function.

Jessica Khachan is not the type of person that springs to mind when most Australians think of a drug addict. 

A very small group of very thin people give scientists surprising clues to one of the most important questions about obesity.

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia's annual health outlook lunch is one of Jillian Skinner's favourite events on the calendar.

A Queensland family poised to go through live organ donation has scored a significant insurance victory that it hopes will ease the financial burden on other families in the same traumatic situation.

Two newborn babies have reportedly been given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at Bankstown Hospital.

Proposal for gender selection in Australia is still in doubt.

People with bipolar disorder are missing out on crucial early intervention because of lengthy delays in diagnosis.

Just in stark economic terms, depression is eye-wateringly expensive. The Australian Psychological Society estimates that every year the disorder drains $12.6 billion from the local economy.

A non-prescription HIV test that gives a result in 15 minutes could soon be available in Australia.

Melissa Allsop was thirty weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness. She woke up two months later, 800 kilometres away from her baby.

When kale and quinoa are bad for you.

Research has revealed most migrant sex workers are satisfied with their working conditions in Australia, but some feel isolated and are working off debts incurred to travel here.

Emma Husar let her crutches do the talking during the election campaign.

A genetic test has been developed that predicts which patients are at most likely to reject transplanted kidneys.

Medibank customers appear to be the most dissatisfied, with complaints to the Private Health Insurance Ombudsman sky-rocketing in the past three years.

A preventative HIV drug being used by thousands of gay men in Australia is being tested on teenagers at high risk of the virus.

Health Minister Jill Hennessy slams reports that dozens of beds and chemotherapy treatment chairs at the recently opened Victorian facility remained closed due to a funding shortfall.

Scientists are close to developing a blood test to detect Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear.

Young people cop all the bad press but who really drinks the most alcohol?

A wave of gastroenteritis outbreaks in daycare centres and aged care homes has sent more than 3,300 young children and adults to NSW emergency departments.

To all the parents making a frantic dash down the baby food aisle: you're doing just fine.